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Filmography
1930
Under Suspicion
1931
Once a Sinner
Fair Warning
Charlie Chan Carries On
Ex-Bad Boy
The Homicide Squad
The Lightning Warrior
1932
So Big!
The Rich Are Always With Us
Week-End Marriage
The Purchase Price
Miss Pinkerton
The Crash
They Call It Sin
1933
Luxury Liner
The Keyhole
Lilly Turner
Female
From Headquarters
1934
Stamboul Quest
Housewife
Desirable
1935
The Right to Live
Living on Velvet
Stranded
Front Page Woman
Special Agent
The Goose and the Gander
In Person
1936
Snowed Under
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
The Golden Arrow
Give Me Your Heart
More Than a Secretary
Snowed Under
1937
God’s Country and the Woman
Mountain Justice
The Go Getter
Submarine D-1
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
Racket Busters
Secrets of an Actress
1939
Wings of the Navy
The Old Maid
The Rains Came
1940
The Fighting 69th
Adventure in Diamonds
‘Til We Meet Again
The Man Who Talked Too Much
South of Suez
1941
Honeymoon for Three
They Dare Not Love
International Lady
1942
Twin Beds
The Gay Sisters
You Can’t Escape Forever
Silver Queen
1944
Experiment Perilous
1945
The Affairs of Susan
1946
The Spiral Staircase
Tomorrow Is Forever
My Reputation
Lover Come Back
Temptation
1947
Out of the Blue
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Slave Girl
Christmas Eve
1948
Luxury Liner
Angel on the Amazon
1949
Red Canyon
Illegal Entry
The Kid from Cleveland
Bride for Sale
1951
FBI Girl
1952
The Last Page
Montana Belle
1953
Tangier Incident
Mexican Manhunt
1956
Death of a Scoundrel
Awards
George Brent was never nominated for an Academy Award.
No woman will ever own me, I own myself. ~ George Brent
George Brent: Learn more about him, review his filmography and more
George Brent was born George Patrick Nolan in Ballinasloe, County Galway on March 15, 1904 to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. During the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), Brent was part of the IRA. He fled Ireland with a bounty set on his head by the British government, although he later claimed only to have been a courier for guerrilla leader and tactician Michael Collins.
Brent came to the United States in 1921. Some time later he toured with a production of Abie’s Irish Rose. During the next five years, he acted in stock companies in Colorado, Rhode Island, Florida, and Massachusetts. In 1930, he appeared on Broadway in Love, Honor, and Betray, alongside Clark Gable .
He eventually moved to Hollywood, and made his first film, Under Suspicion, in 1930. Over the next two years, he appeared in a number of minor films produced by Universal Studios and Fox, before being signed to contract by Warner Bros. in 1932. He remained at Warner Bros. for the next 20 years, carving out a successful career as a top-flight leading man during the late 1930s and 1940s.
Highly regarded by Bette Davis , he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in 13 films, including Front Page Woman (1935), Special Agent (1935), The Golden Arrow (1936), Jezebel (1938), The Old Maid (1939), Dark Victory (1939), and The Great Lie (1941). Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934), Ginger Rogers in In Person (1935), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest (1934) and The Rains Came (1939), Merle Oberon in ‘Til We Meet Again (1940), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three (1941), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan (1945), Barbara Stanwyck in So Big! (1932), The Purchase Price (1932), Baby Face (1933),The Gay Sisters (1942), and My Reputation (1946), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946), and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947).
Brent drifted into “B” pictures from the late 1940s and retired from film in 1953. He continued to appear on television until 1960.
Brent was married five times: Helen Louise Campbell (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Worth (1937), Ann Sheridan (1942–1943), and Janet Michaels (1947-1974). Chatterton, Worth, and Sheridan were also actresses. Chatterton and Sheridan were both fellow Warner Bros. players. His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and dress designer, lasted 27 years until her death in 1974. They had a son and a daughter.
Brent also carried on a lengthy relationship with his frequent Warner Bros. co-star, actress Bette Davis , who described her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. He was suffering from advanced emphysema, and she expressed great sadness at his ill health and deterioration. George Brent died in 1979 in Solana Beach, California.
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